includes:
- process
- In class, the students are introduced to a new topic with a "grabber" and an exploration.
- That evening, the students watch a 5-7 minute video that teaches the topic.
- Video Example with document camera ( Day 18 Review )
- Video Example with Aver A+ software (Line-of-Best-Fit )
- Video made using a PowerPoint (Ratios )
- To encourage/insure that the students have watched the video:
- a problem to work and bring to class the next day,
- notes
- quiz
- Moodle keeps track of who has watched the video (Moodle- Participant Activity Log )
- In class the next day students are given an assignment or activity that gives them the opportunity to practice the concepts being taught.
- While the students are working I go from student to student checking their understanding.
- I do on-the-spot tutoring with those who need it.
- I can differentiate more quickly because I know which students have it and which ones still need more time.
- For the last 15 minutes of class I start the process over again by introducing the new topic.
- technology using
- Moodle- this is where the videos and other assignments are listed. Links take the students to the assignments: videos, quizzes, interactive activities on other web sites
- Aver A+ software for its whiteboard and mark-up capabilities
- Document camera
- subject
- Pre-AP Algebra 1, 8th grade
- plus/delta for what you are doing
- Plus
- More time for discovery/exploration
- Students aren't sitting at home practicing the same mistakes over and over again.
- The teaching that normally takes 20-30 minutes in the classroom only takes five to seven minutes on the video.
- Students can watch the video as many times as they need to.
- If a student finishes an assignment early during class time, he can use his phone to watch the next video.
- Plus
- Delta
- Need to find other ways to make the videos. The sound and the picture don't always match.
- A few students are not computer literate enough to access the videos.
- what will you do differently
- Next year I will start by communicating with the parents explaining the "Flip" concept and giving them web site and log in information.
- I would like to gradually develop more sophisticated videos and use interactive web sites.
- difference it has made in your classroom
- More time for discovery activities.
- More opportunity to develop relationships.
- Better understanding of each student's progress and degree of understanding.
- Students work together and help/teach each other a lot.
- I don't have to unteach the students mistakes.